diff --git a/include/cdio/Makefile.am b/include/cdio/Makefile.am
index f8d584f4..5e08196d 100644
--- a/include/cdio/Makefile.am
+++ b/include/cdio/Makefile.am
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#   $Id: Makefile.am,v 1.1 2003/04/19 08:29:14 rocky Exp $
+#   $Id: Makefile.am,v 1.2 2003/04/19 09:13:06 rocky Exp $
 #
 #    Copyright (C) 2003 Rocky Bernstein <rocky@panix.com>
 #
@@ -20,6 +20,8 @@
 # Things to make the install (public) libcdio headers
 ########################################################
 #
+EXTRA_DIST = cdio.h.in
+
 pkgincludedir=$(includedir)/cdio
 
 pkginclude_HEADERS = cdio.h logging.h sector.h types.h util.h
diff --git a/include/cdio/cdio.h b/include/cdio/cdio.h.in
similarity index 98%
rename from include/cdio/cdio.h
rename to include/cdio/cdio.h.in
index 3381fe0e..cca2efac 100644
--- a/include/cdio/cdio.h
+++ b/include/cdio/cdio.h.in
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
-    $Id: cdio.h,v 1.2 2003/04/19 09:02:30 rocky Exp $
+    $Id: cdio.h.in,v 1.1 2003/04/19 09:13:06 rocky Exp $
 
     Copyright (C) 2001 Herbert Valerio Riedel <hvr@gnu.org>
     Copyright (C) 2003 Rocky Bernstein <rocky@panix.com>
@@ -30,6 +30,9 @@
  */
 #define CDIO_API_VERSION 1
 
+/* Version of cdio package.  */
+#define CDIO_VERSION @VERSION@
+
 #ifdef  HAVE_SYS_TYPES_H
 #include <sys/types.h>
 #endif